The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-08-20
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 "God bless you, Milney '" he cried.
 "You've done me the last service I shall receive in life. God bless you, my friend! And now go on. You can't help these poor fellows here, know; you can't help me any further. Go on with your regiment aud leave us. But here, Milney, take this let ter, and when you are back in Gods Ohio country give it to Nina Clark, and tell her that her promise made a man of me when 1 was nigh despera- tion and despair. Tell her, say God bless her for it p
 "Mina Clark" exclaimed Captain Milney, starting back "Mina Clark Is there no mistake? thought it was
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 "No-no-Mina Clark. I can't tell yon now, Milney. Pm growing weak. Goodbye, Milney-good- byew
 If any inward trouble showed it. self in the captains face none could see it in the gloom. He was silent but an instant, and then said slowly and firmly, but in greatly altered voice:
 "Major Galton, Pm going to put you on my horse and forward you to Chattanooga. You shall be your own messenger to Nina Clark. You have something to live for, and you will live! While Lit does not matter"
 Had the major known that captain Milney was himself wounded-a pain ful hurt in the foot, not dangerous, but disabling-his protests might have been vigorous, but they would not have swerved the captain. As it was, the unexpected turn seemed to give the major a new lease of life. In an instant he had resolved to live-he who moment before had bidden his friend goodbye forever. Astride the captains horse he seemed to get yet another lease of life, and all this stood him in good stead. The troops, tired and dispirited.as they were, moved rap idly on the road, and the majors horse kept pace with them. Long before the night was gone Major Galton was safe in an ambulance and up the way to Chattanooga with not a thought of anything but rest and sleep.
 And captain Milney? Why, the captain fared badly. He had already been too much about on his inureo foot, and it was swollen and stiff. He started to hobble after his men, but it was so hard that in half an hour he gave it up and lay down by the road side, mile or two behind the rear most of the retreating soldiers. It seemed almost as if Major Galton's new life and spirit had been abstract ed from the captains store, leaving the latter ambitionless and despairing.
 "I am whippedr' he said to him self, as he lay down and gave up to weariness and pain. am whipped 1; but not by the enemy back there. No; woman did itw
 At daylight next morning Captain Milney was wounded prisoner of war, bound for some southern militia ry prison. "l am whipped" he said, as on the night before, and prepared as well as he could to take it philo- sophically.
 Seven or eight months afterward the captain awoke one morning from the delirium of a long fever. He was in hospital near Washington. When he first became conscious things about him looked almost as strange as the fantastic visions of that dream haunted fever land from which he had just emerged. All things strange, eXcept-ah! except the female figure at the side of his cot That was f.- miliar enough; it was Nina Clark. She was reading, and he had been looking at her and wondering dream fly for some time before she turned her head and saw that he was awake. Then he asked the question that was uppermost in his mind.
 "Where is Major-Major Galton !' he asked. s
 "Oh, Charley !" she cried, glad tears streaming from her eyes. You are conscious again, thank God. You will get well, dear But the dreadful things you have been saying while out of your head. The major is here, and comes in every day to see you. But you must not talk now, and must not talk to you. You are to take a good sip of this and then go to sleep. Not a word now-only, Charley, if anything is in your head about Ma or Galton and and I-such as you've been talking about in your fever, it's all mistake, Charley-a cruel, cruel mistaken
 Well, he found that out in the after noon of the same day when he saw Major Galton and his wife-his wife, who was not Nina Clark. He dis covered that Mina's promise to the major-that promise which had SO exalted the major and so wrecked the captain--was simply promise to set things right with Cations lady love, who in his absence was being influ- enced by an unworthy rival. DOino